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Questions tagged [rxvt]

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rxvt - how to clear scrollback

I was hoping this would be an easy one but I don't see it in the man page and couldn't find it googling. Is there a keyboard shortcut or even a console command I can use to clear the scrolback buffer in rxvt/urxvt? Ctrl-l clears the current screen…
henry
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enable rxvt option for ssh as in putty

You can enable "rxvt" option for putty like this: I did this and now Home/End/Delete keys are distinguished by the terminal on the remote server, despite $TERM is still xterm. Can you do the same for SSH? I mean change the way those keys are sent…
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cygwin rxvt without X

I used to be able to run rxvt.exe (not rxvt-unicode.exe) from cygwin on Windows and it would run without having cygwin's X running first. I tried calling it via cygwin's run.exe, but that didn't matter. Now that doesn't work (for me) anymore -- you…
atreyu
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Mouse right-click menu in RXVT

I moved from gnome-terminal to urxvt. I am used to having a right-click menu in gnome-terminal. Do such menus exist in urxvt?
boffin
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urxvt - tab expand environment variables

I am new to urxvt (moved from gnome-terminal -> Ubuntu 12.04 refugee). I am used to having environment variables expand in gnome-terminal by default Suppose that I have an environment variable "FOO_PATH" set up for "/home/foo/". When I type…
boffin
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Using Ctrl- and Home/End with (u)rxvt

I'm using rxvt-unicode for it's the less flawed terminal emulator I know. I'm looking for using Ctrl + Arrow keys and Home / End to navigate through command line text, to emulate the behavior of all other modern text fields. Could anyone help me…
orftz
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Xterm escape code to remap Page Up (Shift+PageUp) Command in urxvt

I'd like to bind Ctrl-u to send the Page Up command, but don't know how. URxvt.keysym.Ctrl-u: command: I have bound Ctrl-j to scroll up line by line in urxvt like this: URxvt.keysym.Ctrl-j: command:\033]720;1\007 I know that the code…
xoihiox
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Tmux in Urxvt. Esc key behaves like Meta

In Tmux I have assigned Alt+Arrows combinations (M+Left, M+Right, etc) to switch between panes. It's working ok in most cases. But after changing pane with one of the Alt+Arrow combination every Esc press just repeats last Alt+Arrow assigned…
vigilancer
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Tmux somehow forgets prefix after certain key-bind

I did not change default prefix i.e. C-b. I added the following key binding in my tmux.conf bind -n C-M-w send-keys M-w\; \ run-shell "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i -selection clipboard" Basically I wanted that during the copy mode C-b [ I…
Shivam
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rxvt-unicode borders appeared in Ubuntu Precise

I upgraded from Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 to the RC of Ubuntu Precise 12.04. After the upgrade, borders appear which I cannot get rid of. This shows rxvt-unicode's background set to red and Vim background set to blue. On Oneiric 11.10 there was no red…
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how to start cygwin with some other shell

I have installed the rxvt shell, now I wonder how I am supposed to execute rxvt without having to start cygwin default shell first. I have tried the instruction on the following site, but when I have made that .shortcut file rxvt will only execute…
starcorn
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Can't change rxvt terminal width

How do you change the width of a rxvt terminal running in Cygwin? I can change the number of lines by dragging, but can't figure out how to change the maximum width of any line.
mkClark
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Remapping Ctrl + I with keysym in rxvt

I'm trying to remap Ctrl + I to be captured as something else than tab, so I can use it as a shortcut in tmux. However I cannot get to work. As a test case I tried to get Ctrl + I to output Ctrl + W with the following line for rxvt in…
happy_hivemind
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rxvt.exe is not in the folder after installing it through cygwin

I have installed rxvt using Cygwin. The root directory is F:\cygwin64. So, after installing rxvt, rxvt.exe should be in F:\cygwin64\bin folder. But I can't find it there. I have reinstalled it several times but no change. Why is this happening?…
sm10
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Trouble with rxvt and Cygwin on Win7 -- what is the difference between rxvt native, unicode xC, unicode xS and x ?

I'm having difficulties using RXVT with Cygwin on Win7. rxvt-native launches properly and i can use it, however, it is incredibly slow, rxvt-unicode-xC doesn't launch at all, rxvt-unicode-xS seems to launch but then immediately exits, rxvt-x…
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